Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Books The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave The Spike (Broderick book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick The Spike, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void
Comics Spike (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson Spike (IDW Publishing), an American comic book series featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
Film and television Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage Spike (dog actor) Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network 5Spike, a former localized British version of the American channel Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel Spike (Dutch TV channel), a localized version of the American channel "Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series
Music Spike (Agata album), 2004 Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001 Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989 Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments "Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Southern Accents "Spike", a song by The Network from the album Money Money 2020 "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit
Periodicals Spike Art Magazine, an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004 Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike Spike (company), a video game company Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story Spike (stagecraft), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors Spike (video game), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system
Biology and medicine Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis Spike (neuroscience), or action potential SPIKES, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients Spike protein, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure
People Names Spike (nickname), a list of people Spike (surname), a list of people Spikes (surname), a list of people
People with the name or stage name In film Spike Jonze, an American filmmaker Spike Lee, an American filmmaker
In music Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect Spike Jones, American bandleader and humorist Spike Slawson, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band Corporate Avenger
In professional wrestling Spike Dudley, the ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970) Moondog Spike, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters
Sport
Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football Spike (volleyball), a form of volleyball attack Spikes (mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings State College Spikes, a baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction
Technology Computing Spike (application), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format Spike (database), a biological database Spiking (fintech), a social trading platform Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task Spike (simulator), the gold standard of the RISC-V architecture SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations Spike, a command in Microsoft Word
Mechanical devices Cleat (shoe), a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate Nail (fastener), or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long Rail spike, used to construct railroad tracks Screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers
Other uses in technology Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) NAVAIR Spike Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch Spiking a gun, temporarily disabling a gun by driving a spike into its touch hole
Other uses Spike, to add alcohol or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug Spike, a colloquial name for a workhouse Spike, Michigan, a former settlement Needle spiking, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis), for the star Spica Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia
See also
Spiked (disambiguation) Spiker (disambiguation) The Spike (disambiguation) Golden Spike (disambiguation) Spike Island (disambiguation)